MongoDB Basics

Introduction

Its a pleasure for me to be able to once again introduce a new audience to MongoDB. Throughout my tenure as a computer engineer, it is one of several technologies that I have had the pleasure of working with in depth. I am cotinually supprised at the number of different configurations and purposes that MongoDB is put to.

We see this book as being a small primer and introduction to MongoDB. In order to have such a wide variety of uses a tool must be infinitely flexible, which MongoDB is. At the same time, this flexibility does come with a small learning curve and that is why this book exists. We aim to provide people with a great way to look at many of the core storage features of MongoDB. To do this, we have eschewed some of the ...